note 102575 deleted from function.file-get-contents by salathe

Note Submitter: Stas Trefilov, OpteamIS ---- here is another (maybe the easiest) way of doing POST http requests from php using its built-in capabilities. feel free to add the headers you need (notably the Host: header) to further customize the request. note: this method does not allow file uploads. if you want to upload a file with your request you will need to modify the context parameters to provide multipart/form-data encoding (check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/context.http.php ) and build the $data_url following the guidelines on http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.2 <?php /** make an http POST request and return the response content and headers @param string $url url of the requested script @param array $data hash array of request variables @return returns a hash array with response content and headers in the following form: array ('content'=>'<html></html>' , 'headers'=>array ('HTTP/1.1 200 OK', 'Connection: close', ...) ) */ function http_post ($url, $data) { $data_url = http_build_query ($data); $data_len = strlen ($data_url); return array ('content'=>file_get_contents ($url, false, stream_context_create (array ('http'=>array ('method'=>'POST' , 'header'=>"Connection: close\r\nContent-Length: $data_len\r\n" , 'content'=>$data_url )))) , 'headers'=>$http_response_header ); } ?>